Product carbon footprints are now asked for from two directions: buyers demand them in tenders and supplier scorecards today, and the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) will require a Digital Product Passport sector by sector. Cappi answers both from data you already hold.
Most of what a credible product footprint needs is already inside your business: what goes into the product, how it is made and what making it consumes are facts your own records establish, the same bill of materials already carries the material and circularity attributes the passport will ask for, and where the border already required that collection, the hardest part is done. Cappi supplies what your records cannot, closes the record to cradle to gate, and stands behind every figure with evidence a buyer, an authority or a verifier can test and accept. The result is a footprint you did not have to run a project to build, carrying proof you do not have to argue for.
For manufacturers answering product carbon questions from buyers, borders and regulators.
The product profile earns first where the data is already collected and the questions are already being asked. In the CBAM goods the hardest part of the collection has been done for the border, so the marginal step to a product answer is the smallest in the market you compete in. In batteries, electronics, machinery, textiles and consumer goods the pull is commercial before it is statutory, which means the record built for a buyer this year is the record the passport asks for later.
A product's carbon profile has moved from the annex into the price. Procurement teams score it in tenders, buyers carry it into their own Scope 3 and border positions, and lenders read it as a proxy for operational discipline, so two identical products no longer earn the same: the one with an evidenced footprint is scored, shortlisted and priced ahead of the one with an estimate, and the gap widens with every buying cycle. Cappi turns that scoring into your advantage by rendering an audit-ready footprint for every product from data you already hold, so the profile that wins the order costs you a render, not a new data project.
The commercial clock is already running: tenders are being scored this quarter, buyer reviews land annually, and every cycle answered with an estimate is a cycle a competitor answers with evidence. The statutory clock follows as ESPR delegated acts land sector by sector, and a passport cannot be assembled retroactively from records that were never kept, so the data you keep this year decides what you can prove when your sector's act arrives. Acting today costs a render of data you already hold; acting later costs the tenders in between and a rebuild under deadline.
Every benefit below is a number you can measure in your own operation, because a benefit you cannot count is marketing, and proof discipline applies to our own claims first.
Your own figures for each of these come out of the intro mapping and the Exposure Snapshot, measured on your data rather than asserted by us.
The pull is strongest where the rules are, and the demand is wider than the rules: it travels with your buyers.
The pull is statutory in Europe and commercial everywhere your buyers operate, and it is starting to come home: domestic carbon pricing is taking shape in producing economies including India, China and Vietnam, so the same collection increasingly answers an obligation at home as well as at the border.
Every product claim is ultimately priced by whether it survives scrutiny, and scrutiny in this market means recalculation: the buyer's assurance team, the customs authority and the accredited verifier each take the figure back to its inputs and test whether they arrive at it again. Cappi is built for that test. Each footprint is reproducible on demand and holds one consistent position across the product answer, the border declaration and the corporate report, so reviews close instead of opening negotiations, and the commercial cost of scrutiny, delayed awards, qualified findings, renegotiated terms, stays off your deals. A figure produced in a disconnected tool fails the same test structurally: the moment production data moves, its filings diverge, and divergence between filings is the first exception any assessor raises. That is not a feature comparison. It is the difference between evidence that clears and evidence that costs.
Bill of materials, site, process and energy data reconciled into one source-tagged product record, reusing what the border and the annual report already collected.
Plausibility, boundary and emission factor review at product level. Anything that cannot be substantiated is flagged and held, never carried into an output.
The product footprint with its derivation trail, rendered for the buyer, the tender, the border and, per sector on demand, the passport, from the same record.
Every product you prove becomes a permanent asset: the record holds when a buyer's auditor challenges it, it is ready when your sector's passport obligation arrives, and it strengthens the next tender rather than expiring with the last one.
EU data residency on AWS, tenant isolation and a full audit trail on every row, with an explicit clause on data rights in every engagement. Your product data and your suppliers' data are never pooled into anything you have not agreed to.
Every evidence pack exports in open formats at any moment with its derivation intact, so your footprints travel to any buyer, verifier or system you choose. Nothing about your position depends on you remaining a customer.
The same information you collect for the border and the annual report already carries most of a product footprint. An intro conversation maps which buyer questions your current data can already answer, where the gaps are, and what closing them is worth in the tenders you are scoring in now.
Thirty minutes. Confidential from the first conversation.
